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This morning, on my way to work at 7:45am I'm certain I was behind a drink driver. The driver was going about 10 miles per hour in the left lane, they started with the left tires over the yellow line, then drifted towards the right lane until they were over the right lane. It was approaching a stoplight, about 40 feet away and the driver just kept slowly creeping forward without stopping. As they inched forward, they veered from one side of the lane to the other, the drivers in the right lane were honking because they thought they were going to get hit. The driver finally came to a stop after the light turned green, then waited 10 seconds and slowly creeped down the road swerving back and forth across the both lines. I hope it was just someone drunk but I'm more afraid it's just a geriatric driver who will never loose their license.
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# ? Apr 3, 2020 00:48 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:30 |
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Today I found out what it sounds like when a jogger bounces off my car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNrlNrywyZI
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# ? Apr 3, 2020 19:45 |
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FBS posted:Today I found out what it sounds like when a jogger bounces off my car. That light looked extremely green for you!
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# ? Apr 3, 2020 20:24 |
My dad I may be considered by some to be amongst the titular People after what we ended up doing today. if any of those people rage-passed us today, sorry, but vote for people who won't leave your interstates like this if you don't like it: We have a uhaul full of household stuff so gently caress anyone who expects us to do 80 on that bullshit. I-40 in Arizona
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# ? Apr 4, 2020 05:10 |
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Javid posted:I-40 in Arizona I used to regularly travel a 30 mile stretch of that highway that's worse than much of the rest of the state due to tourists, snow bunnies, and college students on top of the regular truckers and commuters. For a while, I had it down to a science of where I needed to change lanes and ignore the haters because the rear suspension on my old Outback was shot and it would feel like I was fish tailing on dry days if I didn't miss 'em. I even had a foreman who would tell new employees to stay in the left lane going eastbound in the first curve past Bellemont because he lost a month old truck due to ice building up in one particular pothole. He hit it, spun out, and totalled a new Tacoma, and didn't want it to happen to anyone else.
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# ? Apr 4, 2020 08:32 |
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Javid posted:My dad I may be considered by some to be amongst the titular People after what we ended up doing today. if any of those people rage-passed us today, sorry, but vote for people who won't leave your interstates like this if you don't like it. Yeah, that's reasonable.
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# ? Apr 4, 2020 17:55 |
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Javid posted:My dad I may be considered by some to be amongst the titular People after what we ended up doing today. if any of those people rage-passed us today, sorry, but vote for people who won't leave your interstates like this if you don't like it: Were you in the left lane going 60? I'll rage at you. Were you in the left lane going 80? You're fine. Stop at the Love's near Winslow and get some Chester's Chicken. That highway looks pristine compared to some poo poo I have to drive on in SC. My big truck is limited to 65, so I'm stuck in the right lane where there are second level potholes (the top layer of asphalt is gone, and then another layer of asphalt is gone) and just sections of the right shoulder that are subsiding. Now that traffic is getting lighter sometimes I'll move to the left to the non-hosed-up road, but I pay attention to my mirrors and move over appropriately,. Most of the time.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 17:23 |
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I40 in AZ is pretty much a mess, and yeah it is insane how much more wear there is in the right lane than the left. I doubt you were the only one left-lane hogging by a long shot.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 17:37 |
We were doing 65 in the left lane unless somebody actually wanted to pass, at which point we got over and kinda rode the fog line instead of driving in the worst of it. I'm not doing 80 on this disaster of a road for any reason.
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# ? Apr 5, 2020 18:56 |
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Javid posted:We were doing 65 in the left lane unless somebody actually wanted to pass, at which point we got over and kinda rode the fog line instead of driving in the worst of it. I'm not doing 80 on this disaster of a road for any reason. Good for moving over when you could.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 03:24 |
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Javid posted:My dad I may be considered by some to be amongst the titular People after what we ended up doing today. if any of those people rage-passed us today, sorry, but vote for people who won't leave your interstates like this if you don't like it: this was the south side 202 between the 10 and McClintock for over a decade. finally filled most of it end of last year but i suspect it wont last long.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 05:47 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:this was the south side 202 between the 10 and McClintock for over a decade. finally filled most of it end of last year but i suspect it wont last long. I think they're just gonna grind it down to concrete like the right lane of 202EB between 101 and Dobson. I don't know how that stretch of 202 got shredded that badly, either. 60 sees way, way more traffic and hasn't worn like that.
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# ? Apr 6, 2020 06:45 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:I don't know how that stretch of 202 got shredded that badly, either. 60 sees way, way more traffic and hasn't worn like that. Incredibly lovely drainage (i suspect)
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# ? Apr 13, 2020 04:15 |
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This was posted on a police FB page yesterday. A bloke in his 60s thought he could drive from one side of Australia (Melbourne, Victoria to Perth, Western Australia) with this shitheap. His story was that his sister lives in Perth and has the corona virus and wanted to visit her. Thankfully got nabbed before he left his suburb
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 00:22 |
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I mean, of course it's dangerous. It's a loving Daewoo.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 01:00 |
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I've noticed more people asymptotically approaching red lights. I mean, they don't pull up to them at stop like a reasonable person, they start slowing down at a big distance to it and then go slower and slower as they get closer to the stop bar. Why, people?
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 01:12 |
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Yeah, there's no way that cardboard is secure enough. He should have gone without it. Thankfully the cops were there to pull him over to stop him from driving with an unsecured load.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 01:26 |
Phanatic posted:I've noticed more people asymptotically approaching red lights. I mean, they don't pull up to them at stop like a reasonable person, they start slowing down at a big distance to it and then go slower and slower as they get closer to the stop bar. Why are you wasting gasoline and wearing your brakes faster for no reason? Coast down like a normal person. My mother will enthusiastically accelerate towards a red light and it drives me crazy.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 01:40 |
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wallaka posted:Why are you wasting gasoline and wearing your brakes faster for no reason? Coast down like a normal person. I'm not talking about coasting. That is indeed the normal thing. The point is not to reach 0 speed at infinite time.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 02:06 |
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Depends on if there's traffic or not. If I'm not holding anyone up, I'll absolutely coast down to an absurd amount in a low gear to avoid actually stopping. The point at which I can't continue at idle in 2nd gear is usually the point at which point I'll just clutch in and stop. Better than the freaks who will stop, and then creep several feet at random intervals at a red light for no reason.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 02:21 |
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The people who creep forward at red lights are invariably the ones that will sit for a full 2 count when the light turns green.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 02:26 |
PT6A posted:Depends on if there's traffic or not. If I'm not holding anyone up, I'll absolutely coast down to an absurd amount in a low gear to avoid actually stopping. The point at which I can't continue at idle in 2nd gear is usually the point at which point I'll just clutch in and stop. Better than the freaks who will stop, and then creep several feet at random intervals at a red light for no reason. I hate those pricks with a passion, some will stop and crawl forward and stop and crawl forward and stop and crawl forward, over and over again. I'm half convinced they're replacement clutch salesmen.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 08:13 |
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You Am I posted:
At first I was like: "yeah, bad, but not terrible" until it dawned on me that in Oz that's the driver's side.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 09:34 |
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bolind posted:At first I was like: "yeah, bad, but not terrible" until it dawned on me that in Oz that's the driver's side. Same, only just now
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 09:48 |
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ili posted:I hate those pricks with a passion, some will stop and crawl forward and stop and crawl forward and stop and crawl forward, over and over again. I'm half convinced they're replacement clutch salesmen. gently caress those people, I just ignore them unless I'm in gridlock and someone needs that extra space to clear an intersection or something. I'm not going to gently caress over my clutch because these jackasses can't stop their car and keep it stopped for the duration of a red light. Honestly, why are they doing that? What do they gain in any sense by doing that?
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 17:49 |
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PT6A posted:Honestly, why are they doing that? What do they gain in any sense by doing that?
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 17:55 |
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bolind posted:At first I was like: "yeah, bad, but not terrible" until it dawned on me that in Oz that's the driver's side. It's probably a structural upgrade.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 18:15 |
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Had some moron in my neighborhood give me the stink eye for daring to make a right turn in front of her, forcing her to drive on the correct side of the street. Lady, I know that there isn't a middle line, but it isn't that fuckin hard.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 19:13 |
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Craptacular posted:They have automatic transmissions and their foot's slipping off the brake. Plenty of people love stopping with a 1-1.5 car gap and then creep forward in anticipation of the light turning green. They creep more/faster the closer they are to a green light.
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 20:37 |
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TotalLossBrain posted:Plenty of people love stopping with a 1-1.5 car gap and then creep forward in anticipation of the light turning green. They creep more/faster the closer they are to a green light. Yes, but why?
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# ? Apr 14, 2020 23:52 |
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I want to know if you creep forward till your entire car is in the intersection at what point is it just running the red really, really slowly? I see a ton of that poo poo.
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# ? Apr 15, 2020 00:08 |
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I think there's a deep seated human need to do something, even when you intellectually know you can't affect the outcome. It's the same reason people form a 100-person deep queue the moment the gate attendant breathes into the microphone or pressing the floor button repeatedly in an elevator.
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# ? Apr 15, 2020 08:05 |
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Or like the sunken cost fallacy affection people waiting at the ER that have no business being at the ER.
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# ? Apr 15, 2020 16:21 |
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bolind posted:I think there's a deep seated human need to do something, even when you intellectually know you can't affect the outcome. It's the same reason people form a 100-person deep queue the moment the gate attendant breathes into the microphone or pressing the floor button repeatedly in an elevator. Or walking up to a crosswalk with 4 people already there and pushing the button anyway.
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# ? Apr 15, 2020 22:57 |
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LloydDobler posted:Or walking up to a crosswalk with 4 people already there and pushing the button anyway. I’m occasionally that person. All it takes is that one time seeing the human *not* push the button
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# ? Apr 16, 2020 04:05 |
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Every time this creeping thing comes up I'm surprised and wonder why I've never seen it. I think I realized why: in the US the lights are positioned after the intersection but here they are set up before it. If you creep forward beyond the line you're not going to see the lights any more. So if you do it, you won't know when to go and that discourages it pretty well.
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# ? Apr 16, 2020 14:27 |
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Entropist posted:Every time this creeping thing comes up I'm surprised and wonder why I've never seen it. I think I realized why: in the US the lights are positioned after the intersection but here they are set up before it. If you creep forward beyond the line you're not going to see the lights any more. So if you do it, you won't know when to go and that discourages it pretty well. That's nothing consistent. Also as a tall person in a low car I frequently have to lean forward to see the lights if I'm at the stop line.
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# ? Apr 16, 2020 14:51 |
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stolen from reddit that's a toll sensor sticker
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# ? Apr 17, 2020 02:40 |
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Don't worry about the sticker, the driver's iPhone covers it up
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# ? Apr 17, 2020 03:22 |
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FBS posted:stolen from reddit Sorry to sound like an idiot, can you explain this to me?
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